1830 in Scotland

• Lord Advocate – Sir William Rae, Bt until December; then Francis Jeffrey
• Solicitor General for Scotland – John Hope; then Henry Cockburn

• Lord President of the Court of Session – Lord Granton
• Lord Justice General – The Duke of Montrose
• Lord Justice Clerk – Lord Boyle

• 19 March – the suspension bridge at Montrose partly collapses due to movement of a crowd watching a boat race from it, with the loss of at least 4 lives.{{cite news|title=Melancholy Occurrence, With Loss Of Lives|newspaper=The Times|location=London|date=1830-03-25|page=3|issue=14183}}
• 17 May – meteorite falls on the North Inch at Perth.{{cite web|title=The Perth Meteorite|url=http://fernlea.tripod.com/perth.html|publisher=Fernlea Meteorites UK|location=Milton of Balgonie|access-date=2014-08-22}}
• 27 May – Rev. Alexander Duff arrives in Calcutta as the Church of Scotland's first missionary to India.
• 13 July – Alexander Duff co-founds the General Assembly's Institution, the modern-day Scottish Church College, in Calcutta.
• November – Wellington Suspension Bridge over River Dee at Aberdeen opened to pedestrians.
• 16 December – Bridge of Don at Aberdeen opened.{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=The Scots Independent |access-date=2014-08-01 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808044706/https://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-e.htm |archive-date=8 August 2014 }}
• Twin-hulled iron paddle steamer Lord Dundas built for service on the Forth and Clyde Canal.{{cite book|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Shipbuilding/Young(1867)_Ch3.html|chapter=Chapter 3, Chronology of Iron Ships|title=The Fouling and Corrosion of Iron Ships|first=C. F. T.|last=Young|publisher=London Drawing Association|year=1867|access-date=2014-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804032923/http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Shipbuilding/Young(1867)_Ch3.html|archive-date=4 August 2007|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• McVitie's founded as McVitie & Price's biscuit bakery in Rose Street, Edinburgh.
• Annandale distillery opened and Talisker distillery founded.

• Early – Andrew Halliday, journalist and playwright (died 1877 in London)
• 5 February – Lieutenant General James John McLeod Innes, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1907)
• 5 March – Charles Wyville Thomson, marine zoologist (died 1882)
• 15 March – John Ferguson, politician (died 1906 in Australia)
• 5 April
• (probable date) Robert Francis Fairlie, steam locomotive designer (died 1885 in London){{cite ODNB|first=Geoffrey|last=Hughes|title=Fairlie, Robert Francis (1830–1885)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9101|access-date=2014-08-01|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/9101}}
• Alexander Muir, songwriter (died 1906 in Canada)
• 16 July – Alexander Carnegie Kirk, mechanical engineer (died 1892)
• 3 September – Lewis Campbell, classicist (died 1908 in Switzerland)
• 21 September – John Holms, textile mill owner and Liberal politician (died 1891)
• 22 October – Arthur John Burns, woollen mill owner and politician in Otago (died 1901 in New Zealand)
• 30 October – Eliza Brightwen, naturalist (died 1906 in England){{cite book |last1=Desmond |first1=Ray |title=Dictionary Of British And Irish Botanists And Horticulturists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers |date=1994 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9780850668438 |page=100 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA100 |language=en}}
• John Crawford, sculptor (died 1861)

• 14 January – The Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh (born 1766, near Dublin)
• 20 February – Robert Anderson, literary editor, biographer and critic (born 1750)
• 7 April – Henry Bell, engineer who introduced the first successful passenger steamboat service in Europe (born 1767)
• 3 July – John Campbell, advocate and politician (born 1798)
• 16 December – Sir James Donaldson printer and newspaper publisher, who bequeathed a large part of his estate to the founding of Donaldson's Hospital (born 1751)

• Thomas Aird publishes his narrative poem The Captive of Fez.{{cite book|editor=Cox, Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Sir Walter Scott publishes the plays Auchindrane and The Doom of Devorgoil.
• David Wilkie appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV
• Completion of publication of the Edinburgh Encyclopædia, commenced in 1808
• 16 December – Felix Mendelssohn completes composition of his concert overture The Hebrides as Die einsame Insel ("The Lonely Island").

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